Darren Shaw
I'm the founder and president of Whitespark, a local search company with software and services that help businesses improve their rankings in Google. I started developing websites back in 1996 during my first year of university. I failed plenty of courses because I was skipping class to work on my HTML, CSS, and Javascript projects in the lab. Fortunately, people wanted to pay me to build websites, and in 2005 I started Whitespark as a web design and development company. In 2010 we stopped doing web development projects so we could focus on local search, and we launched our first SaaS software, the Local Citation Finder. We now offer multiple SaaS applications and services. When I'm not speaking at conferences, researching the latest in local search, or designing the next best local search application, I like to spend time travelling, skiiing, and dining with my wife and daughter in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Appears in 44 Episodes
04: Building & Running Remote Teams
Aaron and Darren catch up from their last few weeks and dive deep on building and managing remote teams, specifically remote development teams, via a listener question...
03: SaaStr Annual Recap & Rebuilds
Aaron recaps some of the highlights and best presentations from SaaStr Annual in San Jose, the largest SaaS conference on earth. Darren and Aaron then look at the reb...
02: Sprints & Features
We dive into what our sprint cycles look like at our companies and how we plan and build features. Aaron talks about GatherUp's new sprint format for 2019 and Darren ...
01: The Hard Things
Aaron and Darren officially launch The SaaS Venture podcast. Our topic is "The Hard Things" and we each share one of the harder things we accomplished in 2018. For Aa...